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Description of Women's Study Seminar

Women’s Study Seminar

Mondays, October 6 – November 17, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Library

Facilitated by Josie Cirone. (Josie has been doing bible studies for many years, including at the Newman Center at Indiana University. She is beginning her studies for a Masters in Theology at Santa Clara University in January.)

Certification Category: Scripture.
Contact Information:
Laurin Toegemann
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
301 Grand Street
Redwood City, CA 94062
650-363-1514
[email protected]

GENESIS – THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS

This 6-week introductory course to the first three chapters of Genesis will provide participants with a foundation for understanding God’s character, nature, plans, promises, and purpose for mankind. Students will learn how to use a concordance and to cross-reference Scripture in the Old and New Testaments. Participants will understand the Bible not only for its historical content but for its spiritual intent; that is, salvation history. As students interact with this holy text and with one another, pondering age-old theological questions in light of their present-day circumstances, it is hoped the Holy Spirit will cause a renewed interest in their love for God and His body—the Church!

Topics to be presented are:

1. The Creation of The Universe: (Gn. 1:1-25)
a. Is there order to God’s six days of creation?
b. Why does God rest on the seventh day?
c. The Trinitarian nature of God

2. The Story of The Human Race: (Gn. 1:26-31)

a. God creates mankind in His image and likeness
b. The Trinitarian nature of men and women: body, soul, and spirit
c. Free will
d. Man’s temptation and God’s redemption
e. God pronounces everything as good

3. The Sabbath: God’s Day of Rest (2:2-3)
a. The 7th Day—Completion of God’s creative work
b. God’s model for mankind—a period of inactivity for spiritual, mental, and physical health
c. Sanctification of the Sabbath
d. God’s finished work of creation and Christ’s finished work of redemption

4. The Garden of Eden (G. 2:4-17)
a. The Tree of Life
b. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

5. Marriage: Husband-Wife Relationship (Gn. 2:18-25)
a. The marriage relationship and Christ & the Church

6. Sin (Gn. 3:1-7)
a. The Serpent: The Devil or Satan
b. Adam & Eve’s response to temptation
c. God’s response to Adam, Eve, and the serpent’s sins
d. Grace

7. Redemption & Prophecy (Gn. 3:8-24)
a. The first sacrifice for sin
b. Salvation history—The Promise: The Seed of the woman
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain the story of creation & Adam and Eve’s temptation
  2. Compare Adam & Eve’s temptation in the Garden to Christ’s testing in the desert
  3. Describe God and mankind’s Trinitarian nature
  4. Explain the relationship between marriage to Christ and His Church
  5. Contrast sin with God’s grace
  6. Describe prophecy and salvation history
  7. Cross-reference Scriptures with other books of the Bible


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